Stephanie Lee Email & Phone Number

Durham, NC, US

• Serve as a project manager on various IT projects. Track spending, scope, communications, and risks for these projects. Develop project management documentation such as schedules, cost-benefit analysis, stakeholder.
• Plan, lead, and facilitate meetings with stakeholders across multiple divisions from managers to engineers. Develop executive briefings to effectively communicate project progress and request for decisions.
• Developed and published standard operation procedures, operations manuals, governance plans, technical instructions, and user instructions. Managed those articles and documents in the knowledge library.

• Collaborate with clients on data needs and provide expertise in how the data can be requested through a data collection plan while following standard Department of Defense (DoD) guidance
• Facilitate communication between the Cost Analysis and Program Evaluation analyst, Naval Center for Cost Analysis, and Program Office to ensure the client’s data needs are satisfied
• Create data collection plans using technical expertise and a thorough understanding of DoD policy and client needs to determine the appropriate forms and structure for gathering program-specific data
• Present and defend final data collection plans to senior leadership for approval
• Led a team of eight in the development of a standard business processes for analysts to increase efficiency and decrease time spent working on data collection plans. To do this, I wrote, edited, and reviewed their.
• Supervise and manage six individuals through the monthly cost reporting compliance business process, and an additional three other individuals in the CSDR planning process

Blacksburg, VA

• Developed a household survey which was distributed to over 600 households and developed a community survey which was given to over 40 villages.
• Conducted a one day training to three enumerators and four supervisors on how to implement the household and community surveys.
• Supervised three survey enumerators and four supervisors for one month. These colleagues had limited English proficiency which meant practicing cross-cultural communication on a daily basis.
• Organized and managed the project in China for two months while serving as the sole university representative on site.
• Worked closely with colleagues from the International Potato Center in China and Peru to ensure the success of the project.
• Built relationships with the project partners in China as the first graduate student in the department to conduct a project in China.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Built a benefit stream for a cost-benefit analysis of an airport project on Mafia Island, Tanzania.
• Wrote a literature review about rural electrification in Africa.
• Formulated a meta-analysis on agricultural land reform and rights.
• Presented the findings for the above projects to twenty-five participants, including the Economists of MCC.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Attended two conferences to discuss politics in the United States as well as the research paper necessary for the program.
• Final paper: Altering the Food for Progress Act: A Look at Using Conditional Cash Transfers to Promote International Agricultural Development

Blacksburg, VA

• Cleaned and organized data on crop prices in India to ensure accuracy of the information.
• Published a paper on the impact of the papaya mealybug infestation in India in The Journal of Crop Protection.
• Created a marketing plan for a forthcoming book by Dr. George Norton to increase publicity.
• Compiled data to create graphs using Excel that would be published in a forthcoming textbook.

Ecuador

• Completed a two-week intensive Spanish language training course.
• Collaborated with INIAP (agricultural department of the Ecuadorian government) to write and prepare a survey on conservation agriculture.
• Surveyed forty farmers for four weeks in Guaranda, Ecuador to determine the risk associated with practicing conservation agriculture.
• Presented basic survey results to at least seventy farmers in the community.

Master'S Degree, Applied Economic Management

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Applied Economics, Focus On International Trade And Development

Minors: Civic Agriculture and Food Systems Leadership and Social Change Taken a variety classes such as statistics, econometrics, calculus.